The Guild for Spiritual Guidance
Legal name: Guild for Spiritual Guidance Inc
Overview
Mission
The Guild for Spiritual Guidance equips seekers and leaders to whole-heartedly serve in diverse professions, spiritualities, places of worship, and local/global communities through a sustained discipline in the life of the Spirit, supported by a two-year spiritual formation program and ongoing spiritual guidance and community practices.
What it reported doing in 2025
Spring Retreat
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 133876502
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Website reviewed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Headquarters
- Woodstock, NY, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Religion Related N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and the website clearly identifies leaders and governance practices. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 11
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 10.2%; rating input score 10
- Program expense ratio: 11.9%; rating input score 12
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Public monitoring controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Public relationship transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Public governance controls: 4 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.1%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 1.2; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 10.2% of revenue deployed · 11.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 annual filings from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.